(SFX: papers rustling & numerous people talking in the studio.)
BUT: During the commercial, we tried to figure out which revisions of the scripts we had. I had 37, so I'm sure it was the last, but some people just couldn't accept that.
PAZ: Aren't you supposed to turn on the reverb when you do a voiceover?
BUT: Oh yeah, (SFX: cell phone ring tone), just a sec. Yes, hello, B & B Productions, how can I help you?
PAZ: B & B? Don't you mean GWP?
KATrina Novarolska: What am I doing here, blinds? I don't find myself in this episode. (SFX: cell ring tone) Yes, hello and dovistrenya, this is Katia Novasell.
PAZ: What? Katrina Novarolska? Is she even in this?
KAT: It's Katia Novasell now. Excuse your now, won't you please?
BUT: Sorry 'bout that. Where were we?
PAZ: Look at that, Katty Novarolska's here!
BUT: Is she even in this one?
PAZ: I dunno (SFX: cell ring tone) ...what's that? Oh, that's me. Just a minute. Aloha, Pazlo & Butto Investigations and dog-walking service, specializing in home delivery and no job too small, what can I do for you?
DIRector: Okay, quiet please, we're about to take scene eleven again. (SFX: cell ring tone) Oh, standby. Take five, please.
MARsh: Well Paz, somehow you've managed to get another case.
PAZ: That case isn't mine. I think it's Dean's.
MAR: I mean a paying client for your little investigator business. (SFX: cell ring tone) Oh. Important call, BRB.
As the scene progresses, each individual's cell phone rings, followed by answering and a one-sided conversation. This continues to layer with people getting a bit louder to be heard over the din, until it culminates in such cocophony that nothing can be heard.
CUT TO COMMERCIAL.
PAZ: (SFX Reverb) By the time the commercials were over everyone had decided to put their cell phones away.
SFX: Cell phone rings.
BLI: Oops, my bad.
PAZ: As I was saying, the cell phones were put away and we were determined to solve out latest case.
BUT: So Cat Lady, what brings you pussy-footing around here? (Aside: You like how I did that, it's ad libbing!)
PAZ: It's not ad-libbing, you deliberately stole my line!
BUT: Spoil-sport.
PAZ: So Cat Lady, what brings you pussy-footing around here? Now thats's the way to deliver a line.
BUT: Like two months at the community play house qualifies you as an actor?
PAZ: Not this again, it's almost as bad as arguing with the car!
KAT: In my country we do not argue with smart car, we crush it's will to live then turn it into tractor.
BLI: (yells) My feather duster!
KAT: Duster vuz not smart car! Decrepit Iron!
PAZ: You mean DETROIT Iron.
KAT: Thank you, Meek.
BLI: (yells) My feather duster!
BUT: Blinds, you snivelling pest, what revision do you have?
BLI: (yells) Look out for that piano!
KAT: Or Unimog...
BUT: So....Kat Lady, what brings you to Sin City?
KAT: Sincity Natti? I thought vee ver in Puff Keeps Eye.
BUT: Uh, that's Poughkeepsie.
KAT: Not Sincity Natti?
BLI: You mean Cincinatti.
KAT: I knew it! Butcher lied!
BUT: What? (SFX: cell ring tone) Opps,...uh...just a minute...Hello, B & B Productions, this is...oh, hi!
PAZ: So Kat lady, what brings you to Sin City?
BLI: You mean Cincinatti.
KAT: You meen Putin Keepsie (SFX: ring tones) Oh, excusing please...Dovitz, Katia Novasell
PAZ: Cincinatti?
BLI: (SFX: ring tones) She couldn't have a Cincinatti...oh, excuse me.... hello, B & B Productions..
PAZ: What? What do you mean (SFX: ring tones)..sunnuva...hello. Hello? Mom?
DIR: (booth speaker) If you idiots don't shut off your cell phones we're never gonna (SFX: ring tones), what? Oh, hello.
BUT: So, Paz, ready to go and get started on this case.
PAZ: That's not my case, it's Dean's.
BUT: I mean OUR case, the investigation, remember?
PAZ: Oh, that.
BLI: You'll never take me alive!
BUT & PAZ: Blinds, you neanderthalic nincompoop, what revision do you have?
BLI: I dunno, it's 4.66 I think, well, wait, this part is 4.66 and this is 13.32. Wait, maybe I have these out of order...
PAZ: No, YOU"RE out of order!
BUT: Uh, wrong script. I think that's copyrighted...
PAZ: Wouldn't that be copy-written, if it's past tense?
BUT: It's not write it's right.
PAZ: What?
BUT: It's right, not write. It's not the past tense.
PAZ: But it ends with "E-D".
BLI: He's right it's past tense.
PAZ: Thanks, Blinds.
BUT: Hello! It's copyright, a compound word. Copy -- Righted---
KAT: Vas it upside downside?
BUT: Copyrighted! Copyrighted! How could we be in the script-writing business if we don't know what copyrighted means?
PAZ: We're not in the script business. We don't know anything about pharmaceuticals...
KAT: My grandfather has pharmaceutical. Goat farmaceutical. Makes much cheese...
DIR: Any chance we could get back to taking this scene?
BUT: Just a sec. What revision do you have there, Paz?
(paper shuffling and searching, multiple characters saying revision numbers, paper tearing, oops.)
DIR: Alright, alright, let's try to get settled (SFX: ring tones)
Multiple ring tones go off all at the same time, and the whole thing reaches a tremendous cocophony before cutting to commercial.
Laughed my ass off!
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